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People Money – the Promise of Regional Currencies PEOPLE MONEY The Promise of Regional Currencies Margrit Kennedy Bernard Lietaer John Rogers Published in this first edition in 2012 by: Triarchy Press Station Offices Axminster Devon. EX13 5PF United Kingdom +44 (0)1297 631456 [email protected] www.triarchypress.com © Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer and John Rogers The right of Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer and John Rogers to be identified as the authors of this book has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including photocopying, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Print ISBN: 978-1-908009-7-60 ii Contents Introduction 1 PART ONE THE CASE FOR REGIONAL CURRENCIES 4 Chapter 1 Think globally, act regionally 5 Globalisation – a dirty word? 5 Regional development – a global phenomenon 7 Making decisions at the right level 8 Global problems, regional solutions 8 Chapter 2 Money, the blind spot 11 What is money? 11 What is the cost of money? 13 People Money 16 Complementary currencies 17 Regional currencies 19 Policies for regional currencies 20 A negative example: how to destroy regional sustainability 22 Two positive examples of regional currencies 23 Banco Palmas, Brazil 24 WIR Bank, Switzerland 31 WIR’s stabilisation effect on the Swiss economy 37 What can we learn? 39 Chapter 3 An old idea in new clothes 41 Historical precedents 41 Good money, bad money? 44 Historical inflation rates 45 From gold standard to global currencies 46 Local money in the UK 47 The Guernsey Story 48 The Wörgl Story 50 Regional currencies for regional economies 52 Key lessons 52 iii People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies Chapter 4 Characteristics of regional currencies 55 Each region is different 55 Goal: reverse the drainage effect 56 Key elements of a regional currency 58 The ‘best’ mechanism? A lively debate! 61 Integration and organisation 63 Criteria applying to a regional currency 64 Co-operation with financial institutions 66 Fiscal aspects of regional currencies 67 Clearing systems 69 PART TWO REGIONAL CURRENCIES IN PRACTICE 70 Chapter 5 A global community of practice 71 Learning from doing 72 Is it a movement? 73 Why do people start them? 74 Where are they? 75 Chapter 6 How to implement a regional currency 79 Learning from a currency that failed 79 Development process 80 Complex system 82 Get on board 82 Models of ownership – who can start it and how long does it take? 82 Researching the routes and destinations – the key economic and social players 84 Designing the bus – choosing the currency mechanism 86 Creating a bus company – formalising ownership and governance 87 Hiring the drivers and servicing the passengers – management of the currency 88 Keeping the bus on the road – recovering costs 89 Telling people about the service – marketing 90 When to launch? 91 Remember to review 92 Chapter 7 The people and their money – portraits of regional currencies 93 Who starts them? 93 The many habits of highly effective local money organisers 93 A simplified typology of regional currencies 98 Interviews with local organisers 100 iv Currencies that support local economy – Business Exchange Systems 101 The Business Exchange, Scotland 102 Community Connect Trade Association, USA 107 RES, Belgium 112 puntoTRANSacciones, El Salvador 117 Currencies that support local economy – other local economic models 121 Brixton Pound, England 122 Talente Tauschkreis Vorarlberg, Austria 126 Equal Dollars, USA 132 BerkShares, USA 138 Chiemgauer, Germany 144 SOL Violette, France 150 Ithaca HOURS USA 155 Argentine stories 161 Currencies that grow community 167 Blaengarw Time Centre, Wales 168 Community Exchange System, South Africa 174 Dane County Time Bank, USA 180 Other regional models 186 Sectoral currencies 189 Chapter 8 Research, develop, support – the role of agencies 195 International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA) 197 STRO, Netherlands 201 QOIN, Netherlands 205 Regiogeld e.V, Germany 207 CommunityForge, Switzerland 209 Chapter 9 Learning from practice – the power of regional currencies 213 Chapter 10 Future positive 219 Recommendations for action 223 People Money – the time is now 224 APPENDIX ONE Resources for developing regional currencies 226 APPENDIX TWO The business case for complementary currencies 227 About the Authors 230 v Introduction The global financial crisis that began in 2007 is not the first. Researchers at the International Monetary Fund identified 124 systemic banking crises, 208 currency crises and 63 episodes of sovereign debt defaults between 1970 and 2007.1 And in the previous 300 years there were 48 major crashes. The causes are systemic and systemic causes require systemic solutions. In 2003, Margrit Kennedy and Bernard Lietaer discovered that they both wanted to write a book about the possibilities and advantages of creating regional currencies. They were delighted to learn that each of them already had very clear ideas about why the introduction of this type of money would make sense in the near future. Their experiences with local currencies and their knowledge of historical examples were quite different and to bring this broad understanding to the attention of the public it made sense for them to write a book together. Margrit had already featured alternative money systems in her first book Inflation and Interest Free Money in 1991.2 On her travels in Europe and the Americas, Margrit came across many different efforts to develop new ways of using money, like the Swedish JAK Bank, the Swiss WIR Bank, the Argentinian Credito and numerous Local Exchange Trading Systems, all of which showed that complementary currencies could be of enormous help to the people who used them. Bernard had introduced the term ‘complementary currencies’ in The Future of Money in 1999 and was friends with historians of coinage who had discovered many old coins, dating from the middle ages through to the industrial revolution, that had acted as regional currencies on a large scale across Europe. Before Margrit and Bernard were able to finish the book, word had spread in Germany about their plans to publish. Initiators from various parts of Germany, who were thinking of implementing regional currencies, began to ask for more information on how to proceed. Neither Margrit nor Bernard knew exactly how to go about it as they had yet to encounter an example of a regional currency that met all their criteria. So, they organised a meeting to discuss the various options. There was a lively exchange of experiences and expectations which inspired everyone to set up the Regionetwork first and two years later the 1 IMF Working Paper, ‘Systemic Banking Crises: A New Database’ by Luc Laeven and Fabian Valencia, (November 2008). Online at www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2008/wp08224.pdf 2 Margrit Kennedy, (1991). Geld ohne Zinsen und Inflation, (updated new edition 2006). 1 People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies Regiogeld e.V (see Regional Money Association p.207) to represent regional money systems across Germany. The resulting book was published in 2004 by Riemann, Munich3 and became something of a handbook for the first German models. It was later translated into French4 and Spanish5. John Rogers was invited to update and edit the original book for this first English Edition. Part One: The Case for Regional Currencies contains the essence of the original book. Part Two: Regional Currencies in Practice features portraits of local systems around the world, selected from interviews with forty organisers and promoters, and reflects the great variety of current practice.This evidence gives a new impulse and credibility to the concept and helps those who feel compelled to follow in the footsteps of the first initiators to learn from their, often challenging, experiences. All three authors pay tribute to the courage, ingenuity and perseverance of those local currency pioneers who have shown the way and thank all of the local organisers and support agencies who have given generously of their time to do the interviews. If we have overlooked anyone who should have been included, please contact us and we will include you in the next edition. A personal thank you from Margrit and Bernard to our life partners, Declan and Jacqui Dunne, who support our work. Declan and Jacqui were, by chance, born in the same hospital in Dublin and their Irish humour and wonderful ability to tell stories continue to inspire us to fill our visions with life and our life with visions. John would like to dedicate the book to the memory of Eluned, who insisted he get started with local currencies, and to Sitara who cheerfully puts up with his obsession. Up to now, most regional currencies have been initiated by citizens and businesses. Regional and city governments are starting to join them as they search for innovative solutions to the range and scale of problems facing them. We hope that this book will provide enough information and inspiration to local 3 Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer, Regionalwährungen - Neue Wege zu Nachhaltigem Wohlstand (2004). 4 French Edition: Monnaies Régionales: De nouvelles voies vers une prospérité durable (2008). 5 Spanish Edition: Monedas Regionales: Nuevos Instrumentos para una Prosperidad Sustentable (2010). 2 Introduction governments, businesses and citizens to encourage bold new experiments which put regional currencies back on the map for a long time to come. Please send us your stories about regional currencies for inclusion in future editions of this book to: [email protected] Please register your system in the Online Database of Complementary Currencies Worldwide (http://complementarycurrency.org/ccDatabase/les_ public.html) to help researchers compile useful data for the further development of local currencies.
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